Bookshelves of Lesser Doom

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Sep 22 '11
In their ridiculous notion of a ‘compromise’, a 17 year-old will have to bring in Mom or Dad to check out books of inarguable artistic and educational merit.
— NCAC Executive Director Joan Bertin, on Republic High School’s decision to shelve Twenty Boy Summer and Slaughterhouse-Five in a ”secure section”.

(Source: ncac.org)

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